Vocabulary: Wednesday, March 23, 2011

auspicious (adj.)

*bringing fortune or good luck
*promising success and favorable situation/conditions

"They always said that since an especially auspicious date was chosen to hang the sign, the store has been prosperous for more than thirty years!" (25).

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Vocabulary: Tuesday, March 22, 2011

vicious (adj.)

*unpleasantly severe or malicious
*disposed or inclined to evil or vice

Because of his height and his serious face he usually played the villain at the children's theater where he worked. He was the vicious landlord, the foolish king" (13).

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Social Location Map Portfolio Checklist

Your Social Location Map Portfolio must have the following completed maps:

• Your own Social Location Map
• Bobby's Social Location Map
• Bobby's Setting Explosion
  
• Hazel's Social Location Map
• Hazel's Setting Explosion
  
• Arnold's Social Location Map
• Arnold's Voice Explosion
  
• Marjane's Social Location Map
• Egyptian Protester's Social Location Map
• Egyptian Protester's Voice Explosion
• Ji-Li Jiang's Social Location Map
  

That's a total of 11 maps! Make sure you leave it in your folder in your Group's drawer in 407!

Vocabulary: Monday, March 21, 2011

elude (v.)

*to avoid or escape understanding, discovery, responsibility of something because of cleverness or trickery or deception

"After school I would stay in the library until it closed, just to elude the family's overconcerned looks" (17).

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Red Scarf Girl & Chinese Cultural Revolution Homework

Below is the litany of assignments that need to be complete as of Monday, March 21, 2011. If you have any questions, make sure you email me at heathern@uainstitute.org!

1. Take notes on the main ideas for the Chinese Cultural Revolution on your flashcard notes. These notes should be assembled in a book with two covers bound by a single ring. You can find the information for these notes on this blog entry. ***Make sure your notes are IN YOUR OWN WORDS! Not copied word for word from the site!

2.Read Red Scarf Girl Chapters 1 - 5, pages 1 - 79.

3.Take notes in your three column chart IN YOUR READING JOURNAL! Column 1 = Quotes; Column 2 = Questions/Connections/Visualization; Column 3=Inferences & Guesses

Vocabulary: Wednesday, March 16, 2011

pernicious (adj.)

*deadly; fatal; causing death
*extremely hurtful; causing insidious harm

Cancer is a pernicious disease. Patients suffer incredible pain and harm, eventually death in some cases.

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Vocabulary: Tuesday, March 15, 2011

festoon (n.)
*a decorative string or
chain of flowers, leaves,
foliage - actual or
representative (buildings)

to festoon (v.)
*to decorate with festoons
*to create a festoon

"The row of tall parasol trees that lined the inside of the school yard was festooned with more da-zi-bao, hanging like flowers from the branches" (39).

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